"robocop - brilliant
total recall - awesome

but starship troopers is fucking garbage."

Robocop - 1987
Total Recall - 1990
Starship Troopers - 1997

I'm not necessarily going to disagree with you, but do you think perhaps that the age you were when those movies came out coloured your opinion? I went back and watched Robocop recently, and sure it's great fun, and relatively clever satire, but I don't see how it's heads about Starship Troopers. All of these movies are fun (and gory) action movies, not particularly well acted, and feature some kind of pretty blatant social commentary.

Maybe the social commentary is just too damn obvious the older we get?

The reason is that a number of YouTubers are starting to actually make a career out of making videos. I consume the majority of my shows on YouTube now, rather than TV or traditional media. Many channels have multiple updates per week.

Am I willing to sit through 30 seconds of advertising (or more likely 5 seconds before being allowed to skip) in order to get such content, and promote independent videographers? Yes. I am.

Shows worth watching:
- Veritasium, 2
- SciShow
- VSauce, 2, 3
- Nerd3
- MinutePhysics
- Numberphile, Computerphile, Sixty Symbols, etc

I'm going to go ahead and assume that you're a man, because physical violence is generally the way that boys "tease" each other. Girls are entirely different, and your suggestion that word calling is harmless discounts the real pain that so many of them go through.

That distinction aside, I just can't agree that a punch in the face hurts more than being completely socially ostracized. Being unable to participate at all in any of the fun things that go on in your social circles, because you're seen as strange and different? There's teasing, and then there's having your social world dismantled. Also, let's not forget that this online world didn't exist when many of us were kids, and it's far, far less forgiving than the playground.

The feeling of having no friends at 12 years old feels like the end of the world. I also got punched and shoved around a bunch of times. I also got called gay, and nerd, and all the things that a lot of slashdotters will understand. I quickly got over the physical blows, but the feeling of being an outsider persisted for a very, very long time.

The summary is wrong in suggesting that the "still frame" showing Rob Ford hanging out with (alleged) drug dealers is from the video. It is in fact a photo given to Gawker to lend credence to their claim that the video is real, but from all accounts it was taken at a different time.

More generally: many people think this is a hilarious story, but as a Canadian I'm sick of it. This isn't the first time Rob Ford has done something to insult the people of Toronto and bring shame to the municipal government, it's just the most heinous thing he's done. It's been a week since we learned about the video, a week! A week and he still hasn't confirmed or denied it. That's pathetic. It's bringing attention to Toronto that the city doesn't need or want. Hockey riots in Vancouver, organized crime and corruption rampant in Montreal, and a crackhead mayor in Toronto? So much for Canada's reputation. The whole situation makes me angry.

A lot of what you say is completely valid. However this: "Medicine is sold at drug stores" is a huge assumption. If you define medicine as something that's accepted by government authorities as a substance with medicinal value, then fine. But if you define medicine as a substance that objectively helps to cure or treat the symptoms of a medical condition, then I don't agree. In that case, medicine also grows in the forest, and is defined differently depending on jurisdiction, culture, and a host of other factors.

I say this not as a burnout hippie, but rather as someone who was raised by a physician and has faith in western medicine (and a fair amount of scorn for homeopathy and the like). However one other thing my father taught me was to have an open mind, and not to speak in absolutes.

Just in case anyone didn't know how it all ends, they were kind enough to put the climax directly in the trailer. I'll withhold judgement on the film itself, but that trailer didn't do it for me.

And it just keeps getting stranger by the day. I have nobody to blame but myself.

Reading the summary made me roll my eyes, but after checking out the review I admit I'm intrigued. The docking port with controller handles could turn this into a very fun and powerful, large-screen version of a GBA/PSP/etc. I can imagine dozens of indie Steam titles that would play really well on this kind of machine - Super Meat Boy for example.

Now I'm not going to buy one, considering the price tag, but I'm surprising myself by not wanting to mock the concept.

I respect Randi and the work that he does, but I'm sadly disappointed with this interview. I was really hoping for more involved answers here; there's barely anything resembling a thought-provoking response among the bunch. Perhaps I was spoiled by the recent Dr. Bakkar Q&A.

But my understanding (as someone who has learned everything he knows about Bitcoin from Slashdot) Bitcoins are infinitely divisible. This is unlike gold, which can't practically be divided down into smaller and smaller grains.

I suppose this changes their relative value over time, but it doesn't mean that it's doomed to failure. I welcome someone smarter than me to explain it better!

"Golf Channel has taken the wraps of a new camera drone"

And camera drone wants its wraps back!

A built in lie detector would completely ruin romantic relationships, or at least redefine them in almost every way. An honest and healthy relationship is built upon a bed of well-meaning half-truths that make the partner feel better, stronger, more beautiful, and ultimately more loved than he or she may actually ever be. They are lies with the greatest and most honourable of intentions.

Constant truth would be emotionally crippling for most of us, and I for one wouldn't wish it for a moment.

Mildly annoying, only appears on dark greys in specific circumstances, and fades after 10-20 seconds. From my perspective, it's really nothing to get worked up about.

Spare me your condescension, you don't have a clue what I do for a living nor what I use my computer for.

I bought the computer I wanted to buy and it serves my needs very well thanks. Did you also buy the one you wanted? Yes? Great. Now we're both happy.